Le Pen pointed to the exposure of EU mistakes after Trump's rise to power in the U.S.
Donald Trump' s victory in the U.S. presidential election has accelerated the exposure of the mistakes that were probably made by European Union (EU) politicians. Marine Le Pen, leader of France's right-wing National Rally party, said in an interview with Spanish newspaper El Debate on February 10.
"While the US is talking about how they are going to do massive reindustrialization and significantly lower energy prices, we, Europe, are raising energy prices, waging war on nuclear power and implementing the Green Deal. These are a whole series of standards that underpin the deindustrialization of our countries and also the weakening of our agricultural sectors," Le Pen said. The interview was published on the politician's YouTube channel.
She also noted that the EU will continue to make mistakes, so it is necessary to collectively change the direction of European policy. Le Pen emphasized that the head of the European Commission (EC) Ursula von der Leyen is not capable of returning the EU to the right course of development.
After his inauguration on January 20, Trump signed more than 200 new decrees. Among them is an executive order to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement. On February 4, Slovak MEP Erik Kaliniak called on the EU to reconsider its climate policy amid Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Agreement.
On February 4, The Guardian reported on the removal of pages on climate from U.S. government websites. According to the publication, information about the climate crisis disappeared from the websites of the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Transportation. On February 6, Simon Steele, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), said that countries remain committed to climate change plans and plan to lead the transition to clean energy, despite U.S. actions.
As part of the Paris Agreement, adopted in 2015 to combat climate change, governments pledged to take action to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
In addition, the Green Deal, as well as projects involving a switch to alternative energy sources, have also lost their appeal in the West. This was due to the rising cost of electricity. In 2019, the EU agreed on the project "Green Deal" (The European Green Deal). This economic development strategy aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. The package of proposals has been continuously supplemented.
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